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- Many people choose not to use eggs in their diet.
Here are some facts why:
About 70 percent of the calories in eggs are from fat, and a large portion
of that fat is saturated.
Eggs are also loaded with cholesterol—about 213 milligrams for an average-sized
egg.
Because eggshells are fragile and porous, and conditions on egg farms are
crowded, eggs are the perfect host to salmonella—the bacteria that is the leading
cause of food poisoning in the United States.
We not only improve our own health when we kick the egg habit; we also spare
many, many hens from unspeakable suffering. Over 95% of the layer hens in this
country are packed in cages with floor-space the size of a record cover, 5 hens
to a cage. The intense confinement for these debeaked birds is so bad that they
can’t even stretch their wings for the entirety of the twelve months that they
are kept this way before being sent to slaughter.
Factory farmed hen produces an average of 250 eggs over her year of laying,
each egg represents 35 hours of a miserable existence.
FORCED MOLTING
When their egg production drops, hens are deprived of water
and food for up to 14 days at a time in order to shock their bodies into a period
of increased laying. This extremely cruel practice, called “forced molting,” causes
birds to lose their feathers and a significant percentage of their body weight,
and many birds die from hunger and dehydration. This hen was rescued from a factory
farm after her body was devastated by forced molting.
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